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It is estimated that Special to Oakville Homes MOM CALLS A TRADEMN SAlf,Ct!! onald McDonald House in Hamilton will om- Rcially open its doors on Friday, less than a year after ground-breaking ceremonies. The Georgian-style, 15-bedroom house will pro- vide a much-needed home away from home for the families of seriously ill children being treated at near- by Chedoke-McMaster Children's Hospital. By NANCY ALEXANDER 5.1.00J $5 '300 CASH AND IN WITH THE NEW with this Canadian made sofa love seat and swivel rocker. Hundreds of other models aval- able. ALL RECLINERS WAS Q1B _ LESS TRADE Local interior designer's work part of Designer's Showcase So, installing a pool heater will I}: rl"' . n l 1 ,.,.W W; OUT WITH THE OLD... TOWARDS THE PURCHASE OF ANY 3 PC. LIVING ROOM GROUPlNG $200 TOWARDS ANY 2 PC. GROUP AND S100 TOWARDS ANY RECLINER! Artist's rendering of new Ronald McDonald House adjacent to the Chedoke-McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton. 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Cheques may be made payable to: Kids Care, Oncology, Central West Ontario. and should be sent to '. Hamilton Ronald McDonald House. 1510 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ont.. L88 IE3, (416) 521-9983. each year close to 1000 families whose children are seriously ill and receiving treatment at the Chedoke- McMaster Children's Hospital will need affordable accommodation. This is exactly what Ronald McDonald House is there to provide. Families pay only $10 a night for their room with private bath. They also have access to laundry, kitchen, and recre- ational facilities. The house will be nm by a resident house manager who oversees the day-to-day operation of the house. There are also many volunteers involved covering duties such as supervision, guest registration, clean- ing and maintenance, and arranging for supplies and services. Annual operating expenses for the house are antic- ipated to be in the $100,000 to $125,000 range. The costs include items such as the salary of the house manager. property taxes, utilities, and maintenance. heater, will cost about $500 dur- ing average weather. Heat pumps, which came on the market about six years ago, at that time cost less to operate than gas heaters. They now cost more to operate than gas heaters because of the much higher electricity rates we have now. Because of the high costs of operating gas and electric heat pumps, pool owners use them very sparingly after the first WAS $476 - LESS TRADE -S100 ALL GLIDERS '376 Evaluuion Servlcos Inc If it isn't obvious, solar s terns are the most environmen ly friendly of the pool heate Gas heaters produce la amounts of carbon dioxide (gl al warming) and heat pumps c tain CCFC's (ozone layer de tion) and use large amounts electricity (nuclear wastes, etc. Solar pool heating systems a very cost effective. They will ty ically recover the cost differed between themselves and a heater within two or three ye (An average solar system co less than the first year costs of electric heat pump). Most so products have 10 to 15 year w rarities, with the best offering " long as you own them" (lifeti warranties. When sizing a solar pool , ing system there are several factors to consider, but the mir mum size starts at 50% of ti pool's surface (with the high' efficiency plastic panels, typical 75% for rubber panels). If tl pool is shaded, or if the pane, have to face a less than ide direction, or if a pool cover is used at night, then the surfa area of the solar panels will h to be increased. There are two basic types o solar outdoor pool heaters; semi rigid plastic panels and flexibl rubber panels. The plastic pane are all more efficient than th rubber panels, some by as mu as 50%. But rubber panels c. sometimes be placed where it impossible to fit the plastic pa els, such as on irregular roofs. Solar pool heating systeij have been around for years, a all of the currently available prod, nets are free of the problems, some solar systems used to haw 10 or more years ago. A pool witl a properly sized solar system wit, typically rise in temperaturt between 4 and 8 Fahrenheit degrees on a sunny day. This i slower than a gas heater, b faster than a heat pump. If th weather is bad - cool, overcas perhaps raining - the solar syste won't heat the pool, but peopl usually don't swim when t weather is bad, and people do heat their pools then either! This heater uses the free ener; gy of the sun to heat the pool. solar pool heater. [ years' enthusiasm is dampened " the high fuel bills. 3 A growing number of happy pool owners are discovering K heater that costs nothing to oper~ ate, although it does cost some. what more to install than a con ventional heater. e Bring in the sweet smell of our Spring Cut flowers are a delight to the eye and sometimes to the nose, too. Dutch, hybridizers have for years experi- mented to create new varieties with characteristics such as stronger stems and longer vase life. Now, hagranc'i once again is taking centre stage iii their efforts. tk When it comes to bulb flowers', hyacinths and lilies undoubtedly conh first to mind but that is just the tip of the iceberg. Look at all the other pleasantly scented types that grow from bulbs and tubers. I Other spring-flowering that bulbs have a lovely aroma, include that group of Narcissus known as jonguilt which gives us the cultivars 'Cheerfulness' (creamy white colorI; ‘Yellow Cheerfulness' (soft yellow); 'Cragford' (white perianth, yellow cup) and 'Geranium' (also white and yellow). The little one called 'Suzy' (yellow and orange) smells delicioug but is so small, it is hardly ever used as a cut flower. :3 Many lillies, too, are strongly scented, such as the gold-rayed lily, Cd auratum;, the Madonna lily L. can: didum - regarded as the leading cut; flowers in this group; the Japanese MI having large, pure white trumpet; shaped flowers, L. longiflorum; tlid royal lily, L. regale, which some ped; ple think smells like honeysuckle, and L. speciosum, which spreads a dell: cious scent. ‘T All year round, freesia smell won] derful. Available in yellow, whitey cream, reddish, lilac and blue colors‘ both single and double varieties artl now on the market. They are most abundant from March through Mat and most scarce in August ,;‘ Among daffodils, the most strong- ly scented, of course, is the well-, known Paperwhite. In fact, a bunch of them will fill a large room with pene- trating fragrance and can be ahnoit' overpowering. 1: This Inlclo w” prop-rodrtyy ,